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15 members of Boynton Police decide not to resign from SWAT

Two members of Boynton Beach Police have resigned from the SWAT team, a city police spokeswoman said on the department’s Facebook page.

Police Benevolent Association President John Kazanjian said about 15 members were expected to resign but met with chief Jeffrey Katz last night and decided not to.

Earlier this week, three SWAT team sergeants were reassigned. An additional SWAT member is expected to retire in July. The reassignments go back to a policy that the SWAT team should have only four sergeants. Katz said over the past 18 months the SWAT team has grown to eight sergeants. The three reassignments and the one retirement will help the number of sergeants go back to four.

Katz said this has nothing to do with ongoing contract negotiations. Kazanjian said it is related to the negotiations because “morale is getting low.”

“We want to get a contract and move on,” Kazanjian said.

The contracts expired Sept. 30.

The city and the officers agreed on a 3 percent raise but disagreed on how it was dispersed. The city said the 3 percent raise would be across the board while the officers want the amount of the raise to depend on the amount of years worked at the department, said Kazanjian.